Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, November 9, 1874, Page 2

2 sn abatomont of this groatost ovil, and hasa tondonoy to presout man faultloss, without spot or wrinltle, not only boforo God, but boforo 8o« cioty, In thut atmosphere of temptation which enwrapa us all from our cradlo to our gravoe, this tempiation must bo & kind of Jacob's ladder, standing upon which tho nngels of Qod wonld not only paes and m?uar, but by which they are carrylug mon up to falrer roalms, Tho Lord's Drayor contnins tho potition that God wonld not “lead usa into tmns)‘tntluu," aod the soul must guard sgaiuse scoking thom, aud making them oo many and too great, Thore is room for tho Tord's Prayer, and also for & value in tompta- Hon, James' words, ** Count it alt jov,” aud Chiat's prayer, inve amplo_room in “this_wido world for nil oqual words, pitched only in diffor- ot ootaved, Ona of our poats has givon to tho momarles of ur il a fow lines whioh will harmonize the joy of tho Apostis with the Lord's expross potition. James, for examplo; says: Vico in n mounter of 5o fnghtful mien, A5, (0 Lo hated, needs but to bo seen, Chtlst then takes up the rofrain, but— Yot seon too oft, famillar with lier face, A¥e irst ondure, then pity, thon ombraco, Whou temptation roveals to us tho moustor, then it is n Joy; but, when we como ta soo it too ofton, wo nead the prayer of our Lord, Pnssing boyond this contlict, whioh ia no con- flict oxcept to litoralists, aud to tham the whole world [s a discord, we roach the conchusion that, in tho fact of tomptation, thero lies tho fact of educatfon for this lifo and for tho poxt. In it thoro arg angcls that minister 1o the wants of man, ‘Tempiation is an atmos- hora I which n good chainetor may ripen liko ho vintago upon tho warm hills of France, One cannot bo snid to possess any Recurity of chiar- ncter until ho has beon triod, Onr mother Lvo tailed becauso, lnstoad of having chavactor, uhe possossed nothing but innoconce, Shie know nathing of death or sin, nothing of honor, for shio hind soon no dishionor. Liko a child, sho had Invocence, but not an intelligent concoption of noral worth. 1t is by tho measurcmont of ain by a long standing in” & howling wilderneas that tho man of character s found, Men aro born in Junocenco, but thoy dio with choractor. Tho theory of honesty is onr to all by nature, and honco tho young heart Dot ot out in tho world fcols that lionosty is as casy as sloeping, or looking, or hoaring, Coming to anrly manhood, this innocent soul feels that integrity is na much his own as are bis hands or s faco. Dut the wheol of fortuno turus him into the money market or into Congross, and bo- fore he Is aware of it iohns no iutegrity loft. Tha tyuth {8, ho nover possetsod any it the bost Fonso of the word; but only cuteitained tho theory ns lmin;i1 truo, and looked to tho world of trinl through the eyes of anly innoconco, Jt is with * hopor " ms with somo other things, Wo think wo havo the art when wo only possoss the thoory. Many & young mind, full of the love and gift of genins, upon hearing n pieco upon tho piano feols thnt his own hands could ¥un over the koys in tha samo easy fashion; but, lo! upon trying it, whats great gulf nt once springs forth Letwoea tho gecret thought and tho aclual melody, I ro- member that boys used to road & boolk upon swlmming,—s book full of drawings Low to movo the nrme and tho feot, and to kecp tho mouth above the wayes ; and, full of these plain directions, thoy would run to’tho stream in July snd plunge iu. DBub in the spag of a fow moments it war necessary for tho nqarest friend to push out n plank _to savo the poor victim of ideal philosoply. Fredoriok tho Groat said if bo had & province with which lio was augry, and which Lo desired to punish, ie would band its overnment over to a 6chool of theoretieal phi- femnunm; such is the groat divergouce often between thioors and practico. Thio reagon why so many fail of honor in pub- 1io and private life is, that, sotting out with the beost intention, they do not realizo in advanco tho differonce balween tho scionco and the aré, Thoy thougbt the ecicnca of honesty would eave them, wherens the most powerful hon- or s that which bas boon tried, and atood tho test,—the honor that haos boen for forty days in_the wildeiness amid the siran vices of the wotld, tho flesh, aud tho dovil, After a soul has once resistod tomptation, It ‘beging to paes from the ecienco to the art; tho meaning of intogrity beging to unfold itsolf in tho honrt, and there comes the first conacious- ness of moral power. Aftor it has for s few yenrs withstood the trin), thon Lionosty becomes 1o baro theory, but an actusl trait of character; and overy yenr of rectitude in tho faco of obsta~ cles adds & now besuty and glory to the charace ter, just sa each summer tme adds to tho branches and foliage of & trco. To bo met, thereforo, with ~ 8 great trial Is only to - be furnished with an opportumtiy to becomo honorablo. As tho lover of nature, coming to tho Valloy of tho Yo Somito or Chiamounix, cries, ** Now I am happy, for now my love of pature oan express itself. It has found it place, and its hour, in thess grand Licigbts and dopths, In this vordurs, aud heso cancades of silver, in this azure above ;" so the lover of honor may, in the Lour of temptation, W count it all oy " that his theory of moral beau- ty has found a tima and placo for filling itself with all that is most divino in tha ILife of man. Tho condcionsness of honor must bo stranuely identical with the consclonsness of having resist- od preat tomnptation. It hus beon plunned of God that these two forma of memory ghatl live side by eide in the heart. Houesty ia not a virtue to b worn by ono when on u desort island, *tho monarch of allho sur- vess.” Noriaita virtuo whick is to wreath tho face in sloep like an infant's dream. Dutitisa virtuo made exprossly for the use of temptation. Then it is to ansort ileelf, like the poet's power of entimont whon ho comes to the glory of thoe tropics. . 1n tho litetime of tno youngest of yon, you havo sceu great public men reach tho highest placas nceardad togeniua, and eloquence, aud af- fability, and then éink {row failute of common integrity. Their virtue bad beon the theory of a Selitirk on an island swrrounded only by his goals, or tho dream of an infant, and not tho horo of tompiation. ‘hoy held to honesty until it was neoded, and then parted with tlie ouly power that could be of auy valuo to them upon enrth, ‘When a man, in_oarly or middlo lifo, in busi- ness or in friendship, or in political aflairs, 18 approached by o temptation of passion or of old, that is the only hour in which o ever yot Fn his life needed honor, Ilionor has boeen a dream np to that momont. To Hll?llt it then would bo lilo a coast light-hiouse lit upin the day time, dark only at night, I allude to public mon beeaune they are the only persons visible to tho oyes, However much private virtue thore may bo supposed to exist in the lnnd, it suffers under the disadvantage of being invisi- ble. Teaco tho question of morala generally must turn upon the charactor of public men. If, undor trial, thoy fail, all sooms to have failod. Ana there is also the fenr that if piivato eainta wera olovated to offico thoy (02 wonld rovenl do- ravity, for tho wickedness of great mon scoms 0 indicato a goneral desolation, In the past five years many of our public men bayo had fine opportunities afforded them for building up grand characters thut would havo cast hight not onlv upon their own ago, but upon millions of persons Fising up 10 thoe Nex! gonora- tion, 'They hnd au_opportunity of reacting that form of bomor fthat comes from having been tried, and baving proven truo. Out in tho wildornces for foriy days or forty yoars, amid wild beasts and Satanio volcas, thoy had the privilege given them of ro- Lturning to the busy sticets of mmukind with n whiteness upon them,—a whiteness wrung from beroism in the actual fleld of Iife, Hanor comes Irom action more than from idess, On paper wo could all ba hieroes, In tho columnsof a nows- Enpor and in patriotis sormons what daring ceds did wo not all accomplish In the late War, but the world doos not thing any wreaths to this %ind of herolsm, It walts until the gront orather comos home from tho actunl battle-flold, —Irom the frout, where, for years, ho stood bo~ fore the cauton's month. Upon him falls the gratitude of the fatherland. The Instinct of tho humnn hoart mnever sulfats it to confound an_editor or o clorgyman with o Loonidas, O what opportuniticy our publio men havo had Lo mnko that grand transi- tion seen to exise botween tho untrled and the tried! O what grand hours they have enjoyed [rom passing over from lnnoconcs to integrity, Honenty is like un anchor,—not for culm dnys, but for'storms, 'Lhe suctior may be decked with flowers nt tinos, and, fu & harbor, mav o ontho bow and sllently promulgo its' theory, Wa huve sll seon thom thus lying at tha vessot's bow, dacked with wrenths, wud silontly oxpressio, thelr idea of usefuluoss, Bub whon thio veusgl i out on [ts puth, ond thove s a night with ntorm and with derkness, without a atar, thon the old mass of iron seems to gloryin ita raggoduess, and, lonylng It dcal fostoons upon the deck, in tho gloomy miduight it dra}m Into tha doop, whid graups the solld earth with ity giguntic ame, Butb mich of our public honor Iy 10t of this tron-like stuft ; when tho storm and darkneka come, tho vossel proes straight to wrock ; tho anchor, inatead of seoking the bob~ tom of tho ceenn, whera liew the solid world, seotg Lo liwve beon mudo of painted wood, and, witholl its garlands of Christinn theory still wpon i, comes in altont, A vessol is badly oft when its shoot-anchor floats, The Itoman Empire, for a bundred at lenst, wooms o huva surpnssed Amiori honesty of life, I hopo Iam mistakon, but I afraid L am right, Among thoso_men whom wa aro socustomel to call * grnnd old Romans,” the chiiof happinows thoy sought was tho consclons. meas of haviug lived & lifa without reprouoh, THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: MONDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1874. They rode above temptation ag the stars abova tha dust, ano:n. d{r:lng, safd to his friends: “Tho only valusble thing T can loave to you s the romembrance of my iifo”; and Ohilon, a¢ the alogo of n long lifo, ald bo was hinppy in not boing ablo torecnll an unjust action to andden lits dying hour. On tho Inst night on which An toulpus Lins lved, his tribuno having asked him for somo password for that lask night, ho mald, %Lot it bo this: My apirlb hns ponco,” In that briof ora of honor slaves wora rawarded with liborty it thoy wolo discov- wrod to have beou honest under a powerful temp- tation ; and go popular was the pursnit of futog- rity thaka law ssny pasacd forbidding auy mastor from matinmitting more than a hundrod maloe slayos withln o year of {jme, bocauso tho Benato and the rolla’of "Literaturo wore becoming filled witts freedmon who bad bought thelr liborty by a noblo lifo. Now, Chrigtianity offera the soul a puror model, and a purer llmflnflhcm, and a grandor destiny, than lay around the old Roman Son- ato; but n good crced neglected ia nob 80 vnluablo 88 n dofectiva ecreed woll obeyad,—oboyed up to its truthfulness, Dut it "must bo confessed, my frionds, that tho quostion, What malies a cortaln virtus riso np in o Roman oga and atuk In a Christian era, 16 too diflienlt for us. ‘The phopomenon in as vast, hut not ns unecon, aa that shawn us in Naturo, whoro continents sink aud now onen rise up by 8 mighty force hidden from sight. Where thoe Atlantic ‘ocoan now rolls thera was onco a beautiful realm whoro cities stood in grandour, and whoro vinea and archards feutooned tho hills, and the laughtor of childron mingled with tho souge of birds: but soma tuviaibio poswer withdrow that boautltul Atlantls, s Plato soys, and tho watots of tha groat adjowing Amerios }wurlng into tho abyan, withdraw that continent 'rom oxiatonoe, and thna thint which bad long beon bonoath tho old oa becamo visible. Thua unsoen hands drow down the old Roman intogri- ty, and dark waves hiding it have left {n its stend a world where n croed in the hiand is ofton thought A thousand times morp vainable than integrity in tho heart. Tho mind lmows not what hiddon powers thera ara that shonld thus crowd honor upward 10 the old Pagan world, and afiorwards drag {t downward in o Ohrlating Jand, whera the banner of Jeaus Christ, and tho banner of edu- cation, and the banner of liborty, wave all ovor it,—thrae flaga boautifully streamiog from oue staff, The mind knows not: it leaves the heart simply to confesa the fact. and to waop. It will bo otherwiso. Tho love of gold will 6o rin us in our_public and private life; tha lovo of ofilce, tha lova of pariy, will sp ruin public men, that some future ago will, with a deep con- viction, cry out, * An honest man ia tho noblost work of God.,"" And thus wo know that tempta- tion cxists in this rocky wilderness only that mon mav, amid tho whisper of ovil volees, build up for themsalves a nobler belug, and power to grasp tho dutles of lifo, and tho powor for bloss odness whon life Lins passod nway. Having learned wirtue here in theso fow or thess many yoars, baving scen sin fn all ita forms of sorrow and bittorness, and having through muol iribu- lation roschod o profound love of the truo, and {he boautiful, and tho good, ho comes in from tho wildorness at last, and, by » gato-way which wo call deatb, passes to a realm from which sin and temptntion have been exfled, and where tho heart, full of peaca and of sccurity, will bless thoso days upon carth out of whoso trials it Loy woven 0 bright a crown, ————— THE EOQUSE OF THE LORD, Dedientlon of tho Enl!ll‘lll Church at Hyde nrlc, The Hydo Park Baptist Church, of which the Rov. Edward C, Bayliss ia pastor, waa yestorday dedicated for tho servico of God. The corcmony ditfered in nolhing from the wonted simplo and beautiful form usod on guch occaslons, but it hiad ita poculiar siguificance for the Baptists of Hyde Park, who, twelvo months ago, could nat ovon dream that to-day thoy would bo in posses- slon of n cburch of their own, Tho residont church-mombers to tha numberof about 200 were present, and Tmu a rospectablo contiu- gont vumerically from Ulioago, couveyed tluthor by n speclal fratn which left ihe Iilinois Contral depot at 2:80 p.m, Thus every sitting io the church was occupiod, and many ware forced to staud up through lugk of ncoom- modation, ‘I'ho church wiil scat about 600 porsans. It in o plain and neat structure, such #s 1w appropri- &to to tho resourcos of tho cangrogation at the present timo, _Seriptural mottoes in frames and floral dacorations—a prodigal dlngluy such, perlinps, 88 cau bo mado only in Hydo Pork ab nu{s noagon—iecooratod tho obsncel aud the pulpit. I Alz 3 o'clock the geryicos wore begun, Aftor n voluntary by tho cholr, the Rev. Dr. Goodspeed mado an Invocation of God's presouce and bloss- ing, and proyod God to accopt the offorings of tho congregation, and to touch the lips of thoue who spoko with & holy five, sud impart melody to all who sung. The congrogation then joiuod in singing the hymn beginning— Light up this houss with glory, Lord, Enter and oluim Thino owu 5 Recelve the lmmll%e of our souls, Erect Thy temple-throne, The Rov. Mr, Do Baptisto road the pighty- fourth Psalm, aud the Rev. I, M. Ellis, of tho Micbigan Avenue Church, mado a briot address. Tio congratulated tho congrogation upon haviog, amid trials aod sufterings, succeedod in crocting #o neat snd modest a bundmr. Thera wag & aronlnl significauce in the littla church moro thau it suggestod, He would say that the Iydo Park Baptists Lo-day 5tood as the source of what God alone could detormine, It was perhaps wearying to sit ot the source of n spring ; one dosired rathor to bo farther down the stronm whera tho machinery was. DBut after all, the one sitting at tho sourco and tratning the course of the stronm, was the chief instrument in whay was accomplished. They wero situng at tho gource of grace, nnd directing ita course, Ho sgain rojoiced with them in the success thoy had achioved, and reminded them that tho Church was but a podestal for the Cross of Christ ; it was to instruct them in the way tothe cross, that the Gospel would save thom. Prof. A, N. Arnold dolivercd s short address oo the subject, **This In tho House of God.” 1o asked, What was the natura of that witness for God which that bouse embodiod? Lo auswor, Do sald it was first necossary to know what God was, Phrec passagos in Scripture dofloed God to bo Spirit, Light, and Love. Expounding tneyo designations, Mr. Arnold emphasized tho third attributo. Proaching was only valuablo when it awakencd love for God in man's heart, One drop of lovo was more procious thau a whole ocvrn of knowledge, Those thrue cle- meuts, sniriy, light, and love, must bo jucorpor- ated in tho human charactor, and to do that was the main_objact of tho Christian roligion, o oxproased the hope that God's blessing would dorgand wpos e chrol [t pastor aud paaple and trusted that it value as 8 wilnoss for God would bo seen in the number of mon it reudered godlilge, A hymn was then sung by the congregation, and the Rev. L, M. Woodruff, of Elgin, aftor ward spoke. 1ifs remarke wers briof, and in tho course of them ho reforred to the Roev. Mr. Ellis, saying that the source or bogiuning of things was not pleagant; that plossure was to bo biad only by pushing on, Now the Church was a family, snd the speaker always understood that the boginnings of tfamilies were causcy of gront jor, L nughter.) He Lad boon at Alt, Vernon ataly, aud ho aow a lady and her two daughtors lookmg for Washingtou's tomb that thoy might reverance it. ‘Lhey wandercd about for a while, 2ud flnally puilod up at & curious-looking building. Thoy wopt_thoro ooplously, aud their tenry were nouo_tho lers sincore, or nono tho less acceptablo ,becauso the placo wus an old jce- house, {Laughier.} “I'ho_pastor now read the Troasurer's report, prefncing it with a statement as to opganization of tho ohwieh, Tho report showed that tho building aud appurtensuces cost 22,000, of which amount $700 remained unpaid, Tho Rev. Dr, B, J. Goodspoed oxhorted his heavars to assist in paving off that dobt at once. Ho roluted u story told bim by an Afrioan mis- sionary. Tho sorpeuts in that far off land were vary lirga and ravenoud, Hanging from tho limb of a treo down by ita trank, the unwary native or unwatohful boast which passed within 10ach was quiokly devourod, ~ Oue Babbath the missionary wus prosching to a congrogation of natives, Presontly bo noticed what he thonght wea somo loattention on tho parb of the congregation. Now a bov wauld 1un ont, noxt o man, then soveral togother, and thon o genoral panio took place, aud hmy all flow through windows and doors, loaving tho mission ary porfactly bowilderod, ~ Ilo stood lauhl.n;i toward thom, whon in rushed a nativo and cried out, *Tenchior, soa that big sorpent over your head," Tho misslonary imitated the congroga-~ tion, After some while they brought shot-guns and bronght down that eorpont. The devt on tho clnrch wis & sorpent which would driva puator and people out It it be not brought down. Greonbacks wenld aunihilste it, so evory ono ghould Jom in having n shot at it. ‘fhe Doctor's appoal bore good fruit, for all but &80 of the roquired snm was subsoribed for, ‘I'ho Rov. Chuncellor Burroughs offered the ded- icatory prayor, and & hymn was sung, and with the blossing the sorviees cloned. —— THE DOOTRINE OF THE KE¥YS, How thie Rtev. itobert Collyer Interprets Xt. Iho Bav, Robert Doltyer preachod at Unity Clurch yestorday wmorning on the Dootslne of the Koya, taking an his toxt the ninolaenth verso of tho aixteenth chapter of Matthews “I will glve uuto thee ho koya of the Kiugdom of Heavon' Tho normon wan as followss It'you stndy tho passage whih londs to my toxt, you will soo wimt thin motaphor of tho koya muat bave monut whon Josus uaed it, aud srhot it moans now and forover. Tho quostion Lins boon nsked by tho Master Himsolf, Whom ‘}q mon say that I tho Son of Man am? and tho iaciploa angwored : Somo say Thou art John tho Baptlat, some Elijab, and othors Jeremlah, or one of tho prophets, Thon Jeana eoys: Duk whom say yo that I am? and Poter jnstantly auawerg: Thou art Christ, tho Bon of the liviog Gog, and this auewer brings the benedio- tion, Blcsred szt thou, Blmon, son of Jonab, for flosh and blood had not rovealod thia to theo, but my Fathor which I8 in hoayen, And I eny also unto thao thal thou art Poter, and upon this roal I will bulld my Churcp, and tho gates of holl ehall not provail fl%l(llfl iv; and Iwill give unto theo the koys of tho Kingdom of lleayen, and whatsoavor thou shalt bind on carth shall bo bound in leaven, and whatsoover thou shall logso on oarth shall bo loosed iv hoaven. Haro, thon, 18 tho moaning of Lhis doctrine of tho koyw. Tho iden was abroad thab his now prophet waa nin\Ely one of the old prophots como tolifa agatn, whose business it would be of conrso 40 tako up tho throad of the old thought aud lifs and woave it jnto the wob of thoe now titno,—to say thaold things with & uew emphasis, do tho old thinga with a now powor, and so bflng the anoiont arder ta norlostion, Thie was whal the people_wore thinking who stoad ontsido the cirolo Jesus had drawn about Him, but whon thoy raport tho ramor &t which Petor, with tho hondlong farvor which vory ofton urged him on to say or dosomo royal thing hiscold-blooded, loyol-hendod companions alwoys misy, Dotor crles, *T'hou art the Christ, thoSon of the living God.? By which bo monna—if I understaud him —thia I8 not a rostoration wa are witnossing, but a rovelation, not an old lif over again, bi a now lifo frosh from the heart of God, It i tho way, the truth, and the lifa of this now timo in which wa ara living, thon—far thls rara inkjht, though it was only by a flash, it came for thia powor to cateh tho monmnfi of tho rovelation.. lotor I8 made tho porsonification of tho truth he bed told, and daizing bis namo fors symbol, Jesus anys, ‘“Thou art'a rock, and ou this rock will I build my Obureh, and 1 will give thoo tho keys of heaven.” 1Is holds him for a momont iu the whito light of the thing he had said, and mnkes Lima type of an order of men, sud o will bave us undorstand, ouce for all, how this is tho truth on whiol His Ohuroly must stand, that the Bon of tho living God is not doad and gono, ar dead and come to Jife again, 1o is born of God into tho now time, Blf’lng worda fresh {rom the beart of tho Eternal, doing deeds b’v tho ower {rom Heaven, the manifestation of God n the flesh of day, and thit tho men who can gco this truth and toll it, and work 1ts glorlous lives, hold tho keys of hoaven. This, however, you know, 18 nob tho mosning that has boon given to the dochiine of the koya tho Church horsolf. You know alao with whut a terrible ruthlesupesa sho hng insistad on her awn interpretations from the day whon tho Church_of Romo could eclose evory church in Englaud, forbid Christian baptism, wedlook, and burial, whon theso things wero consideved osyantial salyation, pnd bring a groat British King to walk barcloo three days bogging that tho kov might turn s n{n and open the door for himsolf and his kingdom to tho merey of God, This doctrine of the koys bas Leon o atorn, hard thing frow that oid day to lnst Sunday, whon a mother, whose dsugh- ter's funcral I attended a fow days ago, came to mo with a sad cloud 1n her eycs, snd begged mo to toll ber whother that daughter, wno was ns truo and gond woman as ‘e had in this city, bad gono to God nnd to heaven, unuluF that sho had novor bolonged to any church. That sorrowful mothor had lived all ber lifo in a community and worshiped in a churoh whoro tho whole gist, or shall [ call it ehaf, of doatrine bad gone ta prove that thoro 1a no hope for the human soul which line not ndcopted cortain dogmae of salvation nud doua certaln things as & proof of 168 sincor= ity. Sho knew hor daughtor lind not given this proof. Ilor natural conclusion waa that the ntos of life wore olosod against bLer, but some- ing I eaid as I stood boside tho coflin gava hor a gloam of hope, and so sho camo on hor sad orrand, and eaid with oyes 8o eager thoy seemed to” look through mo, “'Do you think, indeed, my child has gono to heaven?" ‘Then I ecamod to eac, as I nover saw hofore, what a fearful thing thia doctriue of tho keys may bo in tho hands of tho so-called Evangolical churches, as well a8 of the Chureh Rome. How tho hard iron out of which tho! hava forged them may bruise mothers aud cnil- dron until thoy are black with the ugly and in- fernal atrokes, and give o darker color even to tho shadow of death. I remember how, when my own fatlior fell down dead at his anvil, my eldor sister, who 18, among atl tho womon I ever know, grout of hoart apd brain, mozned to mo; ‘O, brather, ia thera no hope? Do you not remember how one says ; Bometimen salvation has heen found Tigtweon tho stlrrup and tho ground”? And 80 it soemod 20 burd, and biter, and bad, this idea of a razor odgo batwean the twn of the keys this way and that; the worn faco was tio woeful with o woo whioh ought not to have beon thoro, tbat I was stirred to sy this word to yon about the real mesning of this exquisite symbol, 41 will give unto thas tho keys of heavon.” For, in oxder (o teach tho roal moauing of the Mastor, we musb romomber, first of nll, that Loaven daes not_lis 80 muoh in where wo go as in what wo are, It is quality vathor than & placa, aud you do do not find, you bear it rather out of this Into that, whatover or wheravor it may bo. 8o that Father Taylor held the key ta the whole question whon they told lim ouco in Boston that ono of tho very ohoicest men wo have in Americn was an iufldel, and would go ta hell. Toen the old salt suswerod, oheerily: **Ilis presence thove will obanga tho climato, and tho tide of omngration will turn that way." I fouud fvo mon.in Uolorado this summor who are in the outer courta of heaven aud hell airondy, Onoof themsaid tome: “f am go- ing to get outof this. Iam in misery,” Tha other uaid: **1am as happyas I want to be” oy i tho ssmo nun and acasons, tho gamo earih under thoir faot, and tho spme stars abovo them, The monntaing tipped with snow wero there for both alike, and the intorvals aflamo with spring lowers and autumn glories, all out- ward forms and presencos wero the same to onch men from Jsunary to Decembor, but tho oue was already at the gatos of holl, and tho other nt the gaies of heavon. Now, what made this inconceivable diffuronce ? Thors is but ono answer. Jesus said tho Kingdom of Heaven i within you, You possess tho key, or may poasess it, if you will. I hinve not coma from tne Futher to tell you that in this high epirltual sonso ono man ia bound to bo a beegar and anothor a millionaire, [ have come to eet af liborty thom that are bowund to proohim the nacceptatle four of the Lord, in which every man is ondowed afresh with what came to him by his birthright a4 God's own ohild and my own brothor; to biush away the film of superstition, ignorance, and foar aboug tho fusure, sud to show vou that tho man who fears heaven hero in & pure heart and a right spirlt need nover trouble limself abont heavon horeafter —no mattor what tho pricats eay—any more thun the man who sows good seed in good soil steadily along when socd time comos and takes cara of himeolf need trouble himsolf ubout the harvest. Iouven is_not an extornal but an intornal question. It Js within you or ft is nowhoro for you in tho univorse, Yot truo na this Is, and tho very honrt of the trath about henven, wehuve to soo in the second placo how we shall entor into thiu bighor aud mora blessod lifo while wa arestill living in_this, and horo wa touch sgain the grout thonght Josus touchod of thoso who have or who take the koys, and boooma by virtuo of that power the wardons of thiy Kingdom, If I have lntorprotod IHis thought truly, Potor holds tho keys aud becomas the typo of thoso who hold them, bocauss hie pe- lieves in the prosence and poverof the living God in the now tinie, not_in tho form of an old prophiet come to life again, but 88 a mint-new creation,—the Son of God born but tho other day talking to him and touching hiw, telling o new truth, lnparting & now life, holding tho Ingdam of 1laavon instantly in his hoart, and tuis Taith Is tho socrot of Poter's power, And wa cannot fall to sco where this power hides {t- soll in ita highost torm, if we toach somo of jty manifestations in the lowor. Who, for luntancn, hokls the key to tho higher 1lto of those prairies aud lands that lis betwoan the mountamaand tho sena? Iu [t the man who ‘belioves that the 13gyptians know more abont the raigiug of fruit and geafn, or tho Euglish ln the thmo ot Blizaboth, or his good old father who iy doad nnd gous? No, It {s tho man who bo- levo in the rovalation of 1874, who holds that in onr oxpositions snd Biato and county fairs, nud in the books aud papers of those who hava burled tho treasuro of a great, thoughtful hrain jnn fleld so that soma atom of its virtue has gono into every ear of corn and bladn of grass, Phoso aro the men wha farm to the flnost pure poso, For you kuow as wollas Ido how tho soaret lies not 1o old Tusser's handred poluts of good husbandry suy moro, or in Arthur Young's annaly, or in any of the rovolations thay woro good and truo in’tholr thne, 1t lios with those who kuow all klu:{ knew and & groat deal more, who do all they did nnd a groat “doal bot ter, whoso souln are on_flra with the wholo o. oot of tho wealth whichi llas in a squaro mile of good land, sud ory, '*1 bave a work to do, un how am I graitonod until ik bo .nscoom- plistiod, Now theso mon hiad the koys to the kingdom of the finoat fruit and gralu, and you can find oeo keyd In thoir bunfis nud their spcochos if thoy mado any. You can sco all a8 If in a glnss ot the Stato and counsy falra ; and no doubt thare Ja more joy with them over one wrotchad, worthloss, weod-growing farmer who roponts, than over ninety and nive good farmers who noerd no ropentanca. Or shinll wo touch tho forces of Naturn, and 8o what llea thero, and who holda the koys to this Kingdom, I {t with Frauklin who osught tho lightuing on akite aud pub it undor bonds forgood bohayior to man and bulldinga? Gor- tainly, in bis day, Franklin hold tho koy in mora monged than one, nud_bolwesn suoh a man and the man who oroutchied beforo it In abject forror ng o thundorbolt of Jayo, or & strolo of Gud, agafust which thoro was no appesl and no sheller, thore in 0 groat gulf_fixed, Wo counot_and will not budge. But Morse is our man. Iohns got tho keyn which foll from the haud of tho old philoso- hior. Freanklin taught us tho alphabet, Morss Enu writton us the panlm—Franklin touolied the siring, Morso hns led_the oratorio; and i€ to-day theis In somowhoro In the world, as thote muat bo, a now Hou of God, of tho living God, whosg epiit nud lifo finds now manifestations in the now tuns, and whose heari-beats are mullenniums, thon this now man s aiready the Warden of this Kingdom, and has caught_ the Loys as thoy dropped from tho dying Linnds of tho mfster who way with us yestorday, and to- day Is with tho sccrot o nover fathomed, of tha vaster aud grandor uso of these subtle forcos wo aro just boginnivg to understand. Is it in tho morciful lifting of human and brute burdous ¥ God knows they uro heavy onough, aud must and will grow Jightor until on the very bells of the horses {8 writton, ** Holiness to tho Lord.” Bnt thoy are a foatior-woight to whut thoy were when ‘a quarter of & million men died in thair tracks buildiug the groat pyramid : when an 1n- glish Quoon onac could not tide over bor Kingdom witl half the oaso of an Lnghsh peasaat to-day 3 whon tho woos of povorly and tha deypair of tha liopvy laden you traco in the vislon of Piers’ Plowmsn wore haggard realition that would ralso Linglaud to a rovolution if thoy ware still what they wero thon. Did tho difference como by mon who said the old times aud old teacheis wora the best God could give—Ict us hava thom back and we shnlt bave a good world. Again, no. oy enmio by mon who belioved in mukig o stronm, which knd beou bubbling aiong to tio purposo, turn & mill, and do thd work of o hun- drod haudmills ; by tho mon who saw In n lump of coal and a gallon of water what God meunt wo should soo, whon tuo timo came, a means of groco to o brute bensy, and 8o on through an cendless Borica of things that Lave given man aud beast, in this direction, now hoavens and o now ourth; aud this is the cternal secrot of thoir power. They bolisye that Gud is with ua hete, and hoar that lving God, working throngh His sonA, cryiu‘( tothem in this way, also, ** Qomo untomo all yo that are heavy laden, and 1 will givo you vest," Inspiring theso sous to facl that they also are sont iu this senso to froa tho privou doors, to set at liborty tham that aro bonud, and to procisim the acceptablo foar of the Lord. "Pheso aro tho men that hold the loys to tho kingdom and powor aud glory of natural foreoy, and sqcuro an ontrance into 1t for you and me, and for the brutoes that perish. And so I always counted it just ono point lost to tho porfection: of this vory tomple in which wo worship that thore wnanot ouo of thoso chooery littlo onglues hero, which nlways make mo Jaugh with content as I hear thelr corlous noiso, to savo the men, wha no doubt theu would lave srot o batter job, their woary climb toward tho sly with Dricis and mortar, You geo, then, whero this Ym\-or of tho koys lles in tho things which aro all about us, Tt liew with thoeo who nro nover contont to boleve thay God bas made His noblest and best rovelazions of the forcos and qualities of unwure to thoso who nro dend and gono, or to think that if we could only have thom back again, we should get with thom tho choicest blessing 1Mo has in Hiy hand, It lies with those who beliovo that out of this word new truth is to be discoversd, and novor rest uulil they find it, and with thoso who clonve to thom, bolieve in thiom, and follow them, no wmatter what may happon, who seo ln such a man the Son of tho living God, scut to do lis will In this world, and who hear him say in somo silont, stondy faabion, * 3ty fathor worketh Lith- orto, and I work,” Aud such glances as thess into the lower things propato ws to soe tho trwo doctrine of the keys 1n tho bigher and the highost. For mon of this stamp who are Wardens as we nave scen of the Kingdom of Nature, aro aleo Wardens of tho Kingdom of Heuven, his, indoad, is o very oid iden. Maling your way back to the earfier Christian agos, you find g great array of tho fathers and coufessors of tho early Church who will by no means allow the claim of tho Pontift to tho oxcluslvo rightof this powor. Men liko Cyprian, Joromo, Ambroso, © Angusting, and many more of thoso who aYe stms of thu firat water in the early Christian life, give the power not to onaman, or ono special set of mon, but to the whole Christinn commonwenlth, and ono learned writer says that the Christian commun- ion without ane murmur of dissent ascribes the roooption of the kovs {o the univevsal Cuwrch. Then we have only to romembor that in thes times I am speaking of, tho religious, or shall T sy tho Chriatinn, lite had not hurdenad down into thy habib it chorishes now of looling baok to tho old prophets, and consldoring tnom the truost aud bost Leactiors of the mind’of God, It wag all fyesh out of Noavon to thom, new as tho new day, whila the henthenisin if fought and con- quored Jived in momorica and traditions, They had the very antographs of Paul’s lottors; some wheretho Gospols are bafng elarified and crystal- lized, It was “sun np,” and tho doy was befora them. Thoy held also tho primal and essentint truth of that time with the dew of the morning shining fn its onp, nud had no idon of the dreary, meahauical rontino into which wo imve fallen iy worship and obsorvance. It was a raal lifp that touched thow liko five. Mon did not ro to this church or that ta pleass their wives. ‘Thoy wero drawn thero by the gravitation of Hoaven, Thoy lind to go where they knew the door would opon into the ampbithoatre amoug the tigors who would leap upon thom from Lheir dous, and tho worso than tigers who wonld watch the awfal play, Dut out thero b tho templos it was hiollow and worthless as the oast- oft skin of o snake. Tho faith and worship brouglit no heaveu to thoso who had not heart in it, and so, of course, theso men Lold tho koys who hold tho scerot, and by its blossed pawer were able to grow pure sud good and God- flkn in tho maost dismal days the world s over Jnown, 'Thoy could by to thoso men and wom- en who came oub of theso tomples with a now sndow in their oyes, ** God lias spolien again to mon., Tlis Christ of ours brought His word; now hear this word for yourself. Calels His spir- 1t, lve His Jife, and tho cloud wil) bo lifted and heaven will bo within you, Ilore is the key. Will you ovter and bo ut rest?" And they en- tered and rosted. You remombor the Easter sormon when wo wont togather through tho eata- combs, and found thoso wondoiful records of the peaco which passeth all undestaud- ing whispoted frum graves ooross 1600 yenrs, They are but ono little fragment tide aud timo have tossod to our fact of tho wonders of Lonven whioh cume in tho old times to thoso who eaught the new epirit and lifa from Gad throngh His Jovo, nud bore it singing down io denth, Now, then, finally, ie not this tho trath of this doctaino of the keys in the higlor lifo now zud forever, that tho man who holds them can hour tha uew truth God 18 telling, and feol the new life o is imparting to-day? Who, asPaul says, will not go up into hoaven to_bring Christ down, nor into the grave to bring Him up, hul‘ snying *the end is nigh mo oven in my hoart, wilt uconnt that end whon ho hears it sud live an it by Iuith with thanksgiving? ‘The mnn who holds these keys hns not got thom ayain beonuso of hands laid on bim, and things done to him that ore os foollsh in the lght in whioh they staud to reasonsble mon au auy piece of fooling they did in tho old honthen tomples, o lns got them through bis idouuity with the trath snd the wholo lifo of this new day, and you might as wall try to glve » man the koya to the sorel of good farming, or to it Lim fur » telegraph ope- rator, by tho imposition of hands asto make a an any mero @ Bishop or & Prisst in this power of tha lioy, beoauso you have {wlm through that forin with him. Lot hio luy Its hourt closn to tho Lienrt of tho truth, tho overliving truth which enme $hrough Josus Olrist, and i3 fresh and strong atill us Homer's song of the sea is frosh nud strong, beeauss ik In dipped diroctly out of fountains time nover ulters. Lot him’ live the life in the same true, spiritual foshion Christ lived, without refovenco to the bondage of the Jotter, yot lat hi renliza thut God's uttermost word s not #aid ypt, nor tho last noorot of s life explorad ; that this very day now truth opons from hieaven, and o new lifo beats and pulsey from the boart of God to the heart of man, and that with all reveronce, aud love, and loyalty to= what has = hean, o shall choriub still mora what is, and look out for what will be, never fearing that the great doops of Hoaven csn run dry, ‘Then in my aad, dar woary moments, whon my feot hoom te atand in slippory placoy, av ou & aunking bog of doubt aud four, or whon A cloud is woven across tho nky, And from out wasts pluces conies o cry And murinura from the dying sun when 1 sit by my cofllug, aud weop at my graves ; whon e world ‘grows hard, and lifo grows bit- tor, and God soems to Linvo left e throne, I will go o such & man aa that, I don' carg where hio livos or what they call him, and I will say, “Yon ol iho keys. You ko b acerat ot 3 worda. ~ You asn open n door of hopo in tho Val- loyof Doran. Now, help mo." And o will hnl;‘- 10, o holdy the keys whorovor ho fa for that purpose. He kuaws the word I want to hear. 1la1s my minister. Ho touchen mo with that frosh spirit, and Iam mado whola bocanap— ‘Che epirit which from dod is mada st i, wudltn 1ot e help of rulos that sorve T qulde 1o Thablar mnd, It roara, hawavor bold fta flight, i sigit omward, (run ?nxl,jrt&: fiach nd ol that buok and ackool oa 1o God Linself can soe, o Wiint chiarrus fhils sont all souls will charm Want grioves it saddons all; 14 Dol the cholees of the worlds Within sla mighty thrall, —_— REVIVALS. Tho Rev. Mr. Rittredae Prenches on Iow to Securo Thnut, The Roy. Dr. Kittridge proached at the Third Trosbytorina Church yestordsy ovening on “Elijab on Carmol ; or, How to Sccure n Revival in Roligion.” Tho text was: B0 Abub went up to eat and to drink, And Elijah wont up to tholop of Carmol; suid hocast Limsclt down upon {le earth, and put Lis faco bobweon bis knges.—1,, Kinga, xvitl., 47, ‘Tho prencher, in oponing hia sermon, briefly doacribed tho econo in tho toxt, and alluded Lo it o8 posrossing sovaral features of poeutine inters torest, 1o also roforrod to thoovents preveding, showing how Elijah had hidden from tho bittor latred of Ahab for threo yonrs, and how, whon the draught had for that timn beon over tho land, that King wont forth in valn to seok o brook for his suffering people and thoir cattle, Thon Alsb bethought him of God'a faithful servant, Elijoh, and made vymny sesrch for him algo, untl God sent Lijsh to him, Thon followod the miraclo of tho descont of fire from Mount Carmol, ono of tho most ovorwhelm- ing dwplays of God's powor over witnessed. Gront ua thio dlaplay was, Ahab failod to bogome n converted man, e mervely, on that drond d;\y(.jmlndn tho acquaintanceof tho awful majosty of Goil. "I'his was not tho firgt timo that tha power of God bad thus beon kuown in the world, Whon the chainy of 4,000,000 of slavos worc loosed iu this Jand, pod poaco waved hor baunor oyer two contondibg armies, the glorious straina of tho Daxology sounded trom ono end of Lhe country to the ather, aud it seomed as though the greal ovout wonld be fpllawad by lasting spiripunl re- sults, Yot tho psoplo swere not convorted, Thay went back to bnsiness, to making gold and silver, ns of yore, Thoy were mereiy startlod, and abortly forgot even that thoy had thus beon startled, 1y was o glorious day when tho evont took place, yat no lnstiug spiritual offects scpmod to hiave over sisen from it. o ‘What Amorica nocdod was rain from abova. Souls of man wore dying for lnck of spimtual rain, _The preacher alluded to Ahab on Mount ~Carmel with Elijah, ou rosombiing those ehurch-goora who attond dovont worslup ps an iutolleotial omploy- mont rathor then o dovotional. oxoromso. “They took part in all the outward coromonios of the Uhurch, but got nono of the spuwitual rain which foll upon the singero aud prayorful Chustian, 'T'ho fact that Ahab and Elifall wont on Mount Carmol togathor did notb prove that thoy both went thara te pray, and o to-day tha fact that a man wonk to clinrah vins nob n proof that ho was o Obristian, T'he indilforence which Abab showed when he ute and draunk on_ Carmel was a strangs and un- godly act, Dbecauso ot _the timo . his yation was dylng af thirst, Where would tho rain bave beon had Elijah dono ax did Ahab? In theso days, however, Christians sat down and ato with Alab rathor than prayod with Ell{nh. ‘I'ho test of all worldly duties wau not whothor this or that was all right per se, but rather how o Obristian should ugt when o great world way dying for wani of spivitual ypin, It shiould bo romombered that cach held within himself the power to bring down spititunl rain, Tha proachor drow a contrast botween Elijsh whon he drow tho firo from Heavos, and when ho abased himeolf o8 shown in the toxt. ‘Tho rouson of this dilforence wa3 that, in tho first iustance, ho was hofore Isracl, and, in the sece ond instanco, beforo God. If a rovival was wanted, sl should throw off pride. Thera wns much differonce of opinion among Christinns with regard to the different postures of tho body which oxpressed proper humilin:ion durlng prayar, Bomo said & man #hould stand up, oth- ors tbat Lo should sit down whils praying, while Bome wore 80 foolish 23 to assort that the howd slbould bo bent whenever tho namo of Jests wos. uttored, but God cared nothing for all this, Al 1.|rn wm_x:od was pureness of heart, aud contrition of spirit, Elijsb's nbeorption of soul in prayer wag worthy of notico, Io hid his face in lits knoog in order to be alone in communion with God. Wandering thoughts in_prayer weie a trouble with many Christians. It was well for pooplo [mL)'lng to oloso the oyes. These wandering houghts, however, cama from Satan, aud closed oyes or a determination not to allow their ap- proach would bo all unavailing. ‘Lo ouly way to keop out wandering thoughts was to malke the abjact of prayor the ono thing wanted by tha ouo praying. Tho onrnostncss of Elifah was worthy of nttentlon. Six times the servant went up ot his vequost to scan tho sky, and camo back saying * I oo nothing,” and yet the hoad of tho prophet remained bowed in” anguish and in prayer. It was sud thab prayer was tho rops that conncatad with tho Ulell of Ueaven. It should be romembared that no sloepy pull could gound this boll, ‘'l faith of Elijah was worthy of notico. All tho promiso Elijah had was God's word “ will gond rain npon the land,” and whon the poople nooffed at bim ho did wnot lose faith or discontinus his prayors. dfauy Chris- tinos now lost faith unless God was porpotunlly showoring blossings npon them. Ab Inst tho reward of Elijub’s faith came, the clouds overaproad the sk, and the fresh showers foll upon che eurth, ‘Thore was not 2 promise made by God in the Bible which would not be falfilled, At presout the warld was in naed of ralo, It stood i nocd of Komotliugs which it lnd 1ok got. Wa all scood iu a land whero ain and corruption was to bo geen on ovory side. Tho world needed rogenoration, aud the only power whioh could ,rogonerato it wns God. The samo God yut oxisted, with an ogually large measuro of goodnoss aud morey. Thoro also was o Car- mel to-day to which nooplo conld rapair to com- muno with God, ‘The cloud nlso existed to-day, Its presence waa ovidenced nll ovor tho world, Tho proachor roforrad to the offorts of Mr. Moody in Scolland, tho reaults not of his own exertions, but of praveras a cloud, which had nrison in Sootlund and’in Ircland, and would yot reach America. Auy ono could sco that thero was a aloud i tho 8Ky, now bigger thau a man's Lind, still increasing, and praver was tho powor to produco she shower of spuftual rain, ey THE WATERS OF ITARAH. #crmon by the Rt. Rev. Bishop Chency. The Rt. Rov. Bishop Clhicney prouchod yoster~ day morning in the Reformed Episcapal Church, coruer of Michigan avenue sud Twouty-Tourth stroot, taliug bis toxt from Exodus, xv., 23, 24, 85,—~** And when thoy camo to Marah they could not drink of tho waters of Marab, far they woro Dbittor," oto, To the preachor it seomed only natural that o great joy should bo romembored longor than a great sorrow, for just as floweis outot tho darknoes reach upward toward the light, so, by an obvious Iaw of healthy human nature, wo love to dwell upon econes of gladuess, and shrink with instinetive dread from tlio contem- plation of sulfering. In gome primoval poriod of time, whon coutinemts woro just emerging from tho vast oxpansa of tho sos, & foru-leaf foll upon tho warm aund stemuing soil, ‘The mighity llres pent up withia tho globe's thin crust swollod and raged nntil tlio,carth was uphoaved, and tho Roor of tho sen was litted, Over that leaf the shwo of tho ocoean swopt. Layor above layer grew tho dutl dopoutt of tho irators, Agos rolled on and turned tha slime to stone, and rooks woro piled alovo the fown-loaf's grave. But when the grimy miners aftor conl dug down juto tho bowols of the earth, they found the - press of that loaf us porfoct in its beauty as when it waved In tho hot broath of oreation's early morning, ‘Cho tiny yolusas dalicate as tha fllamonts of the spidor's wob—tha gracoful vut- lines of the fuathery form had boon prosorved through canturies of time, Nooverwholming of the soa—na upheaving of the racks—could ablit~ erato tho benuty of that leaf, Bo we might suppose that when deacending goutly us tho loaf fluttors in awtmon (o tha ground, somo grear blessing camos from hoave on—10 lupss of timo, no_overwhelming trisl, na desoluting catamity could blob out its preoionn momory, Wo might ronsounbly snpposo that, hononth tho ovailaying burdens of heuvy afilic- tiony, tho recollostion of that slgual” meroy wauld Lo procorved, and its honutios tracod out as tho goulogiut trucon tho Juipross of the leaf upon the roelk, Bub guchlanrt t* & 1 el 0 or oxporience. When a groat sorrow ovortakes ug, weare npt to forgot that wo over hind l‘ns moreios, o soom to think that Ho who has lo us thraugh othor porils wili cortalnly forsnke us now, It 1a our rainy dny, and wo can hardly re- wember that the sun over shane. 1o bind boon lod into thiv train of thought by tho incidont of Irncl's history which thie text recorded, It waa only threo days bofora thoy hnd stood on the ahiores of the Red Sen, as its angry wators washed up upon thebeach the dead bodies of Pharaok and hia horsomon, Down through tho depthis * congoaled in the Lieart of the sea,” had the Lord in aufoty lad s shoson, whilo tho ro- tnrnlng waters bad buried thelr enomica in quick and * terriblo destruction, From rank to rank, through all tholr mighty multitude, Liad pnesed thio trinmphial anthem,— Tho Logd 18 my ntrength and my soug, and Ilo is bocome my salvation,” Three days ngo, firad with cn- thusjusm, confidont with faith, thoy looked for. ward to thip Yll maga to Hoaven auif woil- nigh accomplighod. Tow anddenly was this bright picture shindowed] Tuoy camelo Marah, tho niext balting place upon the journsy ; wenry with thelr. mayoh ; thirsty from tho ecarching lioata of tho dosert, thoy felt an oleotric thrill af, glnduess as I tho distance tho gleatning stronms of Marah burst upon their viow. Tha pronchet thoeu procceded to dencribo tho despuir snd demoralization of tho children of Iuracl when thoy found thnt tho promised waters wera blttor—un@it for nee.. Ho desciibed the seeno around Maraly, and showed tho mieroy of CGod in transfoyming the Dbitter wators to @weot, so that tho mighty . muiti- tude mght slakn thoir (himt. ifo also rocounted Boveral other atriking cpisodos, among which he glluded to the mystorious diu’ appoarauce’ of ‘cartain Atoamships, which Lad, donbzless, collided with icoborgs; and yot theso fcaborgs, although produciug partind ealnmitios, tompored the bent of the tropics, and had their own grand uso in tho Kingdom of Naturo, . ‘I'ho maral to bodrawn way that therq was a aheotful side to almost vvory picturo. No wor- tal could hape to cacape all troublo. Mo was n fool who thought be could. run so fauk that trouble could mat overtake him. Whatover greas calumity eame, lot thom bo aswurod that in it thoro was somo good, 'U'he Great Fire and the fire of July wero taken as cases in point, They bad, momentarily, apread deyasiation and hrougbt ruin in their binclr, but ' tha city had drawn boanty fram hor ashes, and prosperity from Hor grontost destruction and devastntion. The prencher then dilatad faytber on the toxt, ofuting out tho unrersonakloness of humauity fl. being discouraged at temporary evils, whorein thore vore often hudden great blossings. Thoy might il sy that thioy had boen in grant tyoublo, but, ont of thom, God had mnds tha light of ITin graco to shine, and they bad faith and hopo in God. Like Mosos’ tree, thoy hnd mado tho bitter waters swoot, WASHINGTON. Contested Elections~Ilouso Appropri= ation Commiftee~Senutor Lognn— Rumors—Now Newspuper Projoctss Special Dispateh to I'he Clicage Tribune, . CONTEBTED ELECTIONS, . ‘Wasurxaroy, D, C,, Noy. 8.—Appearances in- dicnto that there will bo more contested olection cases tu the Iouse of the Forty-fourth Congross than have ever been tried In any proceding Con- gress, Thero scems fo be a dotormination in all olose aistricts to contest, and many Southorn Ttepublican caudidates will doubtlesa makoe an offort, to socure scats on the ground that Repub- lean votery wers iutimidated and driven from the polls. Col. Thomas B. Floronca, cditor of the Sunday Gazlle, of this city, who was dofoatod as tha Demooratia candidato for Cangress in the Firat Pennsylvanin District, intimates in his paner to-day that he will coutest the seat ou tho ground that his opponent sooured bis clootion by bribary. Hia opponeut recelved a majority of aboitt '1,G00 in a digtrict which formely gave 8,000 Republican majority, . TUE HOUSE APPROPRIATION COMITTEE. Gon Garfleld and Mr, Starkwenther, of the House Appropristion Comumittoo, ave hore, and Mossrs, Whecler and Halp, of Majno, ara ox- pected to-morrow or ‘Wuosdav. Whon thoy ariive, work on the Appropriation bills will o at oueo Logun, taking ap firtt Lo Arwy, bill, which Jlr. Whevlor hus in charge, SENATOR LOGAN arrived horo yostorday, to romain permanontly. His bealth is by no’ monns improved, - but he topes that the mild climute of Washington will rostoro Lim in a fow weeks., TUE DEMGCRACY will bring a battory of arul.ory from Baltimore to-morroty, with whioh thoy pronoso to colebrate tho recent succcases of their party, They ap- plied to tho War Dopartment for tho loan of rome guns, but Seerotary Balknap declined to acoodo to thoir request. RUSIORS havo again coms into circulation regarding an impending Cabinet reorganization, but they ap- pear to Lo groundless, NEWSPAPER PROJECTS, No loss than throo Domoorutic dnily nowspa- por projocts aro undor headway here. The Lrening Mail, which hos beon or some time taliod of, is announced to appeac on tho 23u mst. Tho Swnday Ierald propases o doily edi- tion, commenciug with Chriatmos, The third is a speculntion i winch Columbus Aloxandor will Do, it is suid, clief stockiolder and mannger, A ulrcng)prauuuro L boen brought to bear to in- duco Donn Piate to muko the Capifal n daily, but the Colonol is au old bird, and declinos o om- bark in tho bazardous undertalting. —_——— THE NORTHWESTERN STATES. News ¥tcms Telegraphed to Tho Chis cago Tribune. ILLINOIS. Iu the Ofreuit Court, at Winchestor, on Satur- day, iu tho case of Lloyd L. Giuble, of Naplos, 111, administrator of the estate of Elvira Bhoro, against the Toledo, Wabash & Western Railroed, chinrged with the killing of Lens Dora Shore and Elvira Shore, on the 8th dey of Juue, 1874, the Juryreturnod o verdict for plaintiff of 32,000, A wotion was mada for & new trint, Tho Umted States River Burvey Party, com- mandod by F, O, Doran, assisted by Charles 8, Putynm and 0. B, Btovenson, arrived at La Salle on Saturduy, having completed the survey of tho Deaplainos, Kaukakeo and Illivols Rivers to that poiut. —Tho Protestnot Gorman Indics of TLaYalle held & fair on Thursday, Triduy, and Saturday ovanings of last weely for the beueflt of tho Gorman Protostant gchool, and the nut proceods ere about S650. —dA temperauce mass-mooting was held in Champaign last evening in Barrott Hall, Tho hall was erowded, and ths audiouce was addrassed by the Roy, Mr. Goldemith, of tho Bocond Methodist Episcopal Church, —dJumos A, Proitt, & wenlthy and respocted farmer near Mliford, had bis leg brokon an. Wednoeday by his horses running away with the! wugon. —It ia roported that preliminary arrangomonts Tavo boon mado for fho purcuasc of the olegant vesidence of ex-(rov. Wood, at Quincy, us Tesi- danco for the Catholio, Bishop, wha is now lo- cnted at Alion. It it stated that nothing is lnok- ing to cowplots tho transaction but the gonoent of the Popo for the Bishep's romoval, MICHEGAN, Undorwaod, who mutdored Miss Charlotte Pridgoon last Murch, ou tril at Dotroit, was Sa:tulrrluy uight found not gullty, by ronson of in- sy, —Satarday tho snit againgt Dr, Willis, a Detroit dentist, for using the yuleanized rubbuor, was do- cided iu favor of thu patentoo. 'Lhe decirion will affect all tho dentinte in tho Stato who Lave new vuleunite vubbor in shoir possession. —ig, Lonry, of Nuukor (1)), was racently 1mn over by o runaway toum and killed. Sha wes 80 yenrs old, WIRCONAIN, Saventoon Catholio woolotios of Milwautten, with six bands, oxtending twelyo blooks, pro- coodod to St. Anthony's Ohursh yesterduy to colobrate the blessing of a now banior from tho old country, INDIANA, A young man by the nume of Trnat Thollman, who resfded in Laporte, was ruu over by & trnin ontho L.8, & M, 8. Radrowd at Chostorton nbont noon Saturdny, Ilo was putting on tho brakos whilo the curd wero In motivn, snd lost Liu hold and foll botwosn thom. Mo wasiu- stantly Lillod, —A {uung mon named Angust Capolaskl, aged about 16 yunrs, residing sbout 8 miles yorth of Wanatah, while out hmnting with a friend on Baturday, acoidontully shot himsolf, causing his death ju about fiftonn minutes, 10WA. A numbor of counterfoit §5 bills on the Mor- chants' Natfonal Bunk of Chicago hava boon olrenlated in Fort Madison duripg tho pust wak. Thoy aro well ozecutod, boing an axact fa0 similo of tho gouulno, with the oxcuption of tho Pronident's signature, boeing sigued J, O, Tnttor, who {8 Presidons’ of tho Trudors No- tional Bankof Chicago, —Tho dwolling-howuso of IT, P, Tourko, n mila and o hnlf enst of Bioux City, was burned early Baturday mnrnln[z. Tho firo was caused by tha aceldontal knooking over of a kuroseno lamp by M, Ronrke, _iio house aad contontu aro ¢ =g woro in the buroan drawer, sured for $700 in tho Phauix, of Brooklyn, pehish s dor yim NEW YORI. Now Opposition Lino of Steamers the Unina nnd Supan 'l'nulu_nlp:: Lo, $1.900 ; in therin—Consceration of lotor umlmn-‘ i 4 Colored Soecial Dipateh to The Chicaqs Tribune, New Youx, Nov. 8.~Tho discusslon of an op- position lno of steamors on tha Paciflo Ocoan fian beon rooponcd during the st waok by tho intorosted ofliclals, Tho tronbles batwean the Paclilo Mail Stoamship Company and the Pacide Railrond compunies may ba wtaled us follows: To 1871 tho Pacifla Mnil Company made o con tract with tho Contral Pacific Rallroad Company ; whereby tue Steamsbip Company was to 00-0pors ate with tho rallroada on tralght, (ho vecoipts on auok [tofght to ba divided ontho basisof ono-thirq to the Steamahip Company, and ono-thirq tooach of-tho raifronds, and this contraot wag mada positively for fou years, Tho Unlon Dagifa Compnuy hiad also made a contract with the Stowmwhip Company whoreby paasongar. ratee \‘uru to bo maintained nud n bonus allowed ta the Taclilg Alail Company for overy stoamship which sniled from horo, This contract way terwinabip at tho opiion of ofthor party. The Union Paclfic c«anu);‘fnvu a notloo of terminn. tion, and tho Paclfic "Mail Company ropliod by iuforming the Central Paclfic that tholr ;. CONTNAGT WOULD END, Sinco thon tho hnggling betwoon the contend- ingg purtics lan boon almost constant, Tho Cane tral Paclilg Ims\:ruu§ht st acolnst tho Pacifa Mail, and’ tho latfer Las suod tho Uuion Poacilie. Tho cuiol reeult of all thia has ‘hyon the impuirmont of tho receipts ot bath. Qonforengss in tho hopo of ssttloment havo bieen hold, but e yet to no purpeso. Tho Unlon Puclfio poople sny that tho basis of tha proposed sottiomant s tho abandonment of tha .. OULNA AND JAPAN nUSINESS vin the I‘Mh““mé the sottlomout of Qentral Pacifto claims, and guarauteos that the contrack shall bo maintained. If not, tho opposttion lino, deeoribed In Tns ToinuNe's New York corresnondoneo reaontly, will cortainly ba put {n overation. - Prosidont Russell Sago. of the Paolfic Majl, suys that every offort [a ‘making to hnx\'u fllnnl lnln‘gulx,uuma ‘I.llhl woelt, Muinal concepsions mugt ba made. Tl would certainly ot bo withdinen, - o 108 V2% $hc Anvnciated Preay) S i u;nulx:fln'. EW Youk, Nov. 8,—Tlero wore 198 des from diphtheria in thin un.[y in the lask twn‘i'::m ot Uctober. A scloutific {uvostigation is likaly tabo madaipto the cansos of 1(“ provalouag, é\_‘(lnn\'lo\v to aweoping moasuros of provens ion. * CONSROMATION OF A COLORED nimitne, Tho Rov. Jamos Thaodare Iolby, D. D, (cals orad), of Port au Pripce, Bishop-olect of Hayti, West Indien, was consograted this morning in Qioco Church, Blslops L, E. Pottor and Kar- toot, and tho Dishop of Kiugaton, Jamaica, officiated. The sormon wug proachod by Blshop Coxo, of Weatorn Now York, and the act of coue doeration wag porformed by Bisbop Smith, of Kontuoky. Thoro was o larga dongrogation presont, samong whom wero many colorad men, THE. IRON INTEREST, WNo Settlmnent Agrced Upon' by the Pittsbury Manulfacturors and the Puddiers at the Conferonce Saturs any~Aunother Meoting to Sp Meld ‘EQ=Day. Speaial Piapateh to The Chicago Tridine, Prrrsnunc, Pa., Nov, 8.~—Au tolegraphed to T 'Liinuse: nst night, tho onference of iron- mon aud puddlors rosuited unsatisfactorily yes- forday, but to-morrow altornoon pnothor meate \Ing for conforonco {s to bo held. Bad to say, the prospecs looks not very on- couraglng. Tho puddlors say thoy will submit to very slight, if any reduotion, iud that thoy would strika rather than sabmit, 3 thay sy, to ' ba imposed wpon by the maoye aturor who has grown rict from their Iabor, The manufacturars do not take s hapoful view of tho futuro of the iron-irndo. A gonoral de« tortninatlon oxiate among tham, ‘ta sljut down anyhaw, o8 soon ns the|r orders'ara oxhpuuted, As It 8 now, thoy are makiyg " iron ay no prafif, nud eyon st n loss, Thae recordsof tha pi oight months show s record of failures ,in this' brauch of busincss * in this sec~ tion of tha Biate, . Tho dackats of tho Unitod Statos District Qourt in hnuhruptoy will bost tell the tale. The ery of “frao trade," East and-Weat, ton, seemuto have a result rather of demoralizing tha iron interest hore. But that is o question that is oot involved ab present. From all the facta I cau gather, tha mesting toe morraw aftornoon will not result in any sottlas mont, though differantly is boped, and if results are a8 leiuted, the prospect for tho laborng clugsea 1n_this section of the Stato during tha winter is dark indeed, THE NATIONAL BOARD OF UNDER« WRITERS, A Commiittge Appointed to Vislt This City, and Report $0 the Baard Ity Condition, Special Dispateh to Tha Ohicago Tribune, New Yonx, Nov. 8.—The Executive Commite tea of tho Natlonal Board of Iiro Underwriters beld a mooting Thursday, to complete somg businces loft unfinishod at the meeting in Doston during the provious week. A spoclal committeo wsa appointed t¢o visit Obi- crgo, in rosponse to an invitation ro- ceived from tho Citizens' Assoomtion of that city. Tho Qommittoe consists of Mesers, Onldoy §. Growoll, Henden, Ohaso, and Locks wood. They will gofo Chicago very soon, and on thoir roturn will ropost tho resuls of their vieit to tho Exeoutive Committea of tho Board, The return of tho Committes will be awaitod, and tho action of tho National Board will ba very lauiuly basad upon thoir report of the onditiop of the city, —_——— ANOTHER TRAP FOR THE UNWARY. Speaial Dinpateh to Tha Chicano Tridune, NEw York, Noy. 8,—Stimuiatod bv thoillogit]- mate pucocss which lias attonded the oporation of sovoral lottery schames in this country, & combination is forming with _tho objoct of dis. posing of the Grand Opera-fouso and adjacent property in like mannor, At the closo of active hoatilities against Joy Qould, ho tranaforred to tne Eria Qowpaay tho Geand Opora-Houaa, and o lnrgo amount of property on Eighth avenuo and on Twonl_v-thirsnml Tiventy-fourth streets. Whon tho estate of James Fisk, Jr., was sottlod, an intorest in_ tho property was also ceded ¢p the Etle Company, which s now in full possession of tho property, Deivg oxtonslvo and romote from the busiuess contra of {ha Cawpany, the Di- vootors hiave voted to raturn to tho dopot at tha Yoot of Duano streat, Enst Rivor, iHonco tha up-town proporty ia offored for sale. The com- bination which is forming i8 hieaded by a theatro- tickat speculutor, who i8 andeavoring to enlist substantinl pecuniary nid and respootablo namon ol of tha ontorpriso. If ho ls suuosuafu), is proposed to put up tha Grand Opera-louss ua themain prize and the rast of tha property ng minor preminms, Lickot offieea ara to ho opaned lhrmlu“nnt the country, angd oven abroad, aud 2,600,000 numbgre ave to hapedaled out to thoss who will buy thom. ——————— ICHIGAN AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE. Corresvonilence of The Chictna Tribune, Lansiya, Miok.,, Nov. 7.—The Agricultural (lollego exorcisos will bo an fallows: Tuesday, Nov, 10.~Clags-day oxerolges, In traductory remarks by the Presidont of tho class, Georgo W. ‘Mitcholl, Musio: * flomo {s thia word, Lo} Orafion by FI. A. Heigh. ‘Iis. tore,” by . Gromer, Poom, Ly H, P, Jenny. ' Propheoy,” by Jay Bessions, Musio; *Sara Nayed." Progentation of awards, Olnss-cong, writton by Willism Cook, The Clagslny oxer- alkes aro an additional fentuve, adoped for the fieat timo this yoar, Wodnsday,” Nov. 11.~—Gradusting oxerolses, and nn addross by Prosilent G- I'. Hayes, of Washingtan and Jolferson Colloga, Pennsyle vauia; gubjeot, ‘“Money Valua of Liducation,” 10WA REVENUE CASE. + 8pectar Dispatal to he Clicugo Tribune, Dunugug, Ia., Nov, 7.—It has leaked out that the abjeet of Collector Leumbull's boudsmen in \\'lthflrz\vhl%!mm hia oflivial bond, is to sc 1 ombarsags the Government as to fores b to withdraw ita claim against fhomberg, This ro- rult {s sought to be accomplishied by disqualifys ing Trwmbull as an ofticer, for without a prapor bopgd, of course ho eaunot act, It {8 shought by theso pavtian that by resorting to this moans the Gavornmont will cithor abandon its claim or be campoliod to anperseds Trambutl by & Colleotoy wha would bamare pliasnt and pladtio than ho is Wkoly to bo in the Rhomborg {utorest, . DANGERDUSLY WOUNDED. BAN TnaNowon, Nov, T.—Liout, Cherles King, of the Ith (avaley, wad shat and dangerausly wounded near Do Qolo” da, O''a”